| Genre: | Adventure Comedy Family |
| Screenplay: | Michael Berk Douglas Schwartz |
| Story: | Michael Berk Jack Couffer Douglas Schwartz |
| Director: | James Hill |
| Starring: | Granville Van Dusen Linda Gray Frank Logan Raymond Forchion Sharon Anderson Bill Gribble |
| Theme Music Composer: | Gerald Fried |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Michael Berk Douglas Schwartz |
| Producer: | Paul B. Radin |
| Editor: | George Hively |
| Cinematography: | Neil Roach |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Company: | Marble Arch Productions |
| Network: | CBS |
The Wild and the Free is a 1980 American family adventure comedy television film directed by James Hill and starring Granville Van Dusen, Linda Gray, Frank Logan, Raymond Forchion, Sharon Anderson, and Bill Gribble. It was broadcast on CBS as The CBS Wednesday Night Movie on November 26, 1980.[1] [2] [3]
Two animal researchers specializing in chimpanzees clash when one from a staid American university campus brings his bunch of laboratory household trained chimps into the wilds of Africa and meet the other researcher's wild chimps who is studying their behaviour in the wild. As good luck would have it, both groups of chimpanzees coalesce into a single group. This proves vital when both researchers and the chimpanzees have to stop the illegal activities of a wildlife poacher.